Today I will explain to you guys how to use bots without ruining the trending section.
I see so many people with high reputations and low-quality posts in the trending section because they are using bots to boost their posts into trending.
They think they will make profits with that but they usually do not make profits because if you boost low-quality posts into trending you have not understood what bots are for in the first place + nobody gives a fuck about trash posts.
Bots are made to promote your post in the trending section so that your hopefully high-quality post gains a lot of attention which results in followers, upvotes & referrals or whatever your goal is.
(Check out this badass boosted post by @bycoleman to see another boosted post that is well-formatted that provides tremendous value.)
But the people using these bots are thinking they are going to make profits because the bots show an upvote which results in a profit (without additional upvotes) on the bot website.
In my experience, the bots never upvote in the amount that they show on the website and it also encourages shitposters to use these bots to further promote their shit not giving a fuck if they do their part to transform Steemit into a Shitcoin.
These people make losses because they boost low-quality trash posts into trending that nobody gives a flying fuck about.
They will not get good upvotes, many followers or referrals or whatever their goal was.
However, I am not innocent, I have used bots when I was a nooby for pure profits, the difference, however, was that I always gave my best. If you are writing very good posts than you can, of course, use bots to get a profit (which in my experience does not work anymore).
Now I am only using bots when I want to boost posts into trending (like this one, for example, to show you how it works).
So how do you use bots the correct way without pissing people off that care about Steemit in general? You stop promoting trash posts.
Promote posts that provide a lot of value to the people that browse or operate in the tags that you used for your post and format them perfectly. Like that you will probably get good upvotes, many followers, referrals and more.
I should have replaced "Steem" with "Steemiteducation" back then, however, 511 views, a good profit, many followers and a couple of referrals are still an extraordinary result.
That post was meant to be boosted, I provided information that all Steemians are interested in and formatted it perfectly.
Now you know how to use bots the correct way, and now I am going to explain to you how to use bots to promote your badass posts into trending.
Understanding The Trending Section
Depending on in which trending section you want to be in you will have to pay more or less.
It will be way more expensive to be in trending in the "Steemit" tag than in the "Howto" tag.
Check the trending sections of the tags that you want to use and look what the average total upvote of the highest ranking posts is.
Example: The average total upvote in the trending section of the "Howto" tag is between $60-200.
That means you will have to boost your post to that value.
Protip: If you boost your post above that total upvote average you will surely be among the first visible posts in the trending section.
How to Use Bots
Warning: Every bot is different, I highly recommend that you do a thorough research on how to use each bot.
Here is the professional explanation of how the bot system works which comes straight from the website: https://steembottracker.com/
My savage explanation: The higher your vote is the more cash you will receive, this makes it hard to predict how much you need to bid in order to reach the amount that you want to get into the trending section.
My recommendation is to click on "Details" on the right side of the bot and click on "last round". There you can see what people bid for which posts.
Let's check out @mrsteemian with his 50.00 SBD bid on his post (which you can see by clicking on the link on the right side).
For this bid he got a $106 upvote which is in itself a loss, however, his post is now on trending and the quality of the post will make people upvote it or not.
Anyway, we can see that he gets ~$100 for his 50 SBD upvote, so if we want to be for example on top of the trending page for the "howto" tag we will have to vote with 100 SBD to get a $200 upvote which will place us on top of the trending page.
So this is how it works: Select a bot that has enough value to boost you to trending (for that you need to use the bots with the highest value).
To see the bots with the highest value you have to pull the dot all the way to $1000 (see picture below).
You will not just choose 1 randomly, you will do your research about these bots before you use them!
After you have done that you choose a bot that you want to put your precious Steem Dollars in.
After you have done that you will have to wait till the current "vote phase" is over and then a little bit more till you receive your upvote from the bot that you have selected.
And if you have done everything right you will get an upvote that is close to your calculations and predictions.
Again: Only use bots if they provide tons of value to the people in the tag that you are using for your post and when that post is perfectly formatted, otherwise I recommend to abstain from using bots for the reasons I mentioned in the first section.
UPDATE: Trending positions after bot boost in the picture below.
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